I recently posted
a blog containing links to several scientific studies on the dangers of
using marijuana. These studies were conducted the National Academy of Sciences,
the National Institute of Health, and several other equally prestigious
institutions. Indeed, the day after I posted it another study came out on the
links between marijuana and psychosis.

For my efforts I was solidly attacked. None of these studies proved anything
I was told.

I know. Never come between an addict and his drug of choice. None of this is
to mention that if you have become a mental whack job because of your drug
usage, how would you yourself know? Denial runs deep.

A short while ago the President of the United States, a former pot smoker and
cocaine user, assured us that marijuana was no worse than alcohol. Well, that
may be the new mantra but it is out of tune with the facts. Today the White
House web site has an article saying the exact opposite of what the president
said.

Frankly, I can understand the liberals wanting pot to be legalized. They can
then dumb down a few million more Americans, make them dependant on government,
and get them to vote Democrat. And let's face it, the taxes would help tax and
spend liberals offer a whole new raft of entitlements.

I can spot a pot smoker a mile off. I can spot them even quicker in a work
environment. Ask Tess about this if you dare get her going.

Tess works in the restaurant industry and the use of pot is rampant. On a
near daily basis she winds up sharing her lunch with some hungry co-worker who
cannot afford to buy food because they spent it all on pot. A good part of her
day is also spent cleaning up the fuck ups of people who have the attention spam
of a guppy.

Yes, legalizing marijuana would be a real boon to society.

If this blog or the other one offends you then suck it up, Buttercup. Science
is not on your side.

Here is great listening on this very subject from January 29th's VCY America program with Jim Schneider
interviewing Dr. David Stevens. Download the podcast and give it a listen

It is a balmy minus 23 here this morning. That is an improvement over last
night when it was this temperature with a brisk wind taking it down to minus
34.

Bowron Lake Provincial Park

It seems we will be getting real winter here for the rest of the week as
night time temperatures are supposed to go down to between minus 27 and minus
30. I am bringing the brass money in for the duration.

Legion Beach

There was a pea soup ice fog in the river valley this morning. That is odd
for this time of year. It made driving treacherous. I wouldn't see the road.

Now I am having my first cup of amd wondering which grandchild will call
needing something today.

Beautiful B.C.

I finally found an OTC medicine that appears to be helping with this cold.
Buckley's is as uniquely Canadian as apple pie is American. Their cough syrup is
the most vile tasting substance on the face of the earth. The company slogan
used in advertising says, "It tastes awful and it works." Awful is much to mild.
But, people who take is says it does work. I tried it once and will never put
that in my mouth again.

These days they also make cold pills. I switched from the Sinutab I was
taking which didn't work to Buckley's which did. "Buckley's, you rock."